Cook Farm Co. v. City of Detroit
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Waite, J. Bill by the Cook Farm Company, Limited, and others, against the city of Detroit and Thomas M. Lucking, receiver of taxes, to restrain the collection of an assessment for the laying of a water main. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
In 1897 the legislature passed an act amendatory of the Detroit water-board act, designed to provide for defraying the expense of the extension of water mains, including street intersections, by assessment upon the private property (i. e., land) abutting the streets in which the mains should be laid,' upon.a basis of the frontage of the respective lots, irrespective of value. Acting under this amendment, the water board laid a main, and the cost was assessed upon property belonging to the complainants. The act provides that:
“Whenever, in the judgment of said commissioners, it shall be…
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